IT Project Management

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Course Overview

This course focuses on IT projects and everything they encompass - hardware, software, vendor relationships, communication mechanisms for different audiences, and how to work with local and remote teams. Understand how to start an IT project with a clearly defined scope, how to set and manage stakeholder expectations, how to identify and deal with typical IT risks, and how to meet quality standards.

Audience

IT professionals, IT project managers, IT managers, IT project team members, associate project managers, project managers, project coordinators, project analysts, project leaders, senior project managers, team leaders, product managers, and program managers.

Skills Gained

• Understand the IT project life cycle
• Build an IT project business case
• Define the IT project scope & expectations
• Identify project stakeholders
• Define roles and responsibilities
• Build an effective project schedule
• Develop an accurate project budget
• Create project management plans
• Procure key project resources (human and capital)
• Identify, assess, and manage risk
• Establish quality metrics
• Monitor the project progress
• Turn over to production
• Close down a project
• Introduction to different IT project management methodologies (RUP, etc.)

Examinations

There are no examinations. This course contributes 24 PMI PDU's.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course.

Course Outline

• IT Project Failure and Success
• Project Management Foundation
• Project Initiation
• Project Scope Definition
• Time Management and Scheduling
• Resource Planning
• Cost Management and Control
• Communications Management
• Project Risk Management
• Procurement and Sourcing
• Project Management Methodologies
• Controlling and Managing Change
• Quality Assurance and Control
• Phase and Project Closure

Hands-On Exercises

• Create Business Case
• Establish Project Mini-Charter
• Develop Work Breakdown Structure
• Create Network Diagram and Critical Path
• Estimate Schedule and Budget
• Establish Risk Management Plan and Matrix
• Manage Change Control
• Create Final Project Report

Follow On Courses

• PRINCE2 - P2F4 & P4P
• PMI - PMPBC
• Trouble shooting and recovery of difficult Projects - TRDP
• IT Risk Management - ITRISK
• ITIL Foundation - SMEv3
• Project management for VOIP - GK2827

IT Project Management / GK2819